How can you beat this backdrop?

While they won’t be able to move the Air Force One into the Kodak Theatre for tomorrow night’s Democratic debate, CNN will be moving the desks.

After the jump, a few select stills from the site of today’s debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, courtesy CNN.Crew guys never get enough press coverage – this one deserves credit for trying to figure out how to assemble the Ikea-like desk. Hope he brought more than a Phillips-head.

7 Replies to “How can you beat this backdrop?”

Watched the debates on CNN. Is it just me or was the final question hurled at all four candidates (“If he were alive, would Reagan endorse you?”)designed to really put them all on the spot? McCain actually had the gumption to compare his policies to Reagan’s, wrapping himself up in the old man’s mantle in front of his widow in the audience, and only Huckabee refused to take the bait.

Yeah, bad question, and Huck was the only one who handled it properly.
But I don’t think it put them any more on the spot than their choice of debate venue – of course they wanted to be compared to Reagan. Bad question, yes – but not unfair.